Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by rs186 on Saturday November 15, 2025 @07:41AM (#45937045)

I still can't wrap my head around why a DNS provider is required to block websites, especially one that is not associated with ISP or used as default on any device. Oversimplifying this, it's a glorified hash map, so whoever wants to take down the illegal content should just deal with the website owner?

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by JKCalhoun on Saturday November 15, 2025 @07:52AM (#45937097)

Presumably they have failed to do the latter and are just reaching at this point.

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by tuetuopay on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:59AM (#45938265)

Let's say our dear politicans view most illicit contents as nails, and view DNS as a hammer. Unfortunately they are now aware that people can trivially get around the ISP restrictions by using another DNS provider, and have started to pressure third-party providers to apply the same blockings as the ISP ones. This is why a few "neutral" providers have outright blocked France because they refuse to block websites.

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by chrneu on Saturday November 15, 2025 @02:22PM (#45939888)

I think a large part of it is the tech-illiteracy of world leaders.

I'd wager that a lot of the folks implementing these policies don't know the difference between a DNS server and a VPN. They think DNS=VPN, so all the hackers are using cloudflare to get around restrictions.

In general, most folks who use the internet don't know how it works and they don't want to know.

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by cocainemonster on Saturday November 15, 2025 @02:51PM (#45940083)

aren't we all just glorified atoms

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